Haiti Clinic December Newsletter Dear Haiti Clinic Family I just returned from leading a group of dedicated volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and assistants at our clinic in Cite Soleil.  In two days time we helped over 800 people with critical medical care.  Our patients live with/have cancers, diabetes, tuberculosis, AIDS,  malaria, and other severe infections.  We address their dehydration and malnutrition, provide them with treatments again intestinal parasites, impetigo and fungal infections. Pictured here, A volunteer measures a child’s height. Many of our patients are young children crippled by chronic diarrhea and infections.  Many are a fraction of their expected weight and height. Baby boy Laurendy (pictured to the left)  is a a severely ill new born baby we cared for on Saturday.   His mother had no access to prenatal care and an equipped, clean birthing facility.  His suffering bespeaks the need for our clinic. His plight inspires us.   With your support, Haiti Clinic can continue to provide medical and nutritional care for our neediest patients. Baby Boy Laurendy shown above. 2011 We staged 10 weekend clinics where 31 doctors, 11 nurses, 14 non clinical volunteers, 2 dentists, 2 pharmacists, 2 physician assistants, 1 paramedic, 3 premed students and 1 dental hygientist treated over 7500 people. Each paid his/her own expenses. We bought $28,925.55 worth of medications and supplies from our wholesale providers. A Haiti Clinic volunteer cares for a little girl (right picture). Retail price for this would have been over $400,000. To provide ongoing care for our patients in between weekend clinics, we recruited and paid for a staff of 4 nurses, one pharmacy tech, a clinic manager and a physician.  This staff treats approximately 60 patients a day. We started a well baby and child clinic including preventive care, clean water supply and healthcare education.   Clean water and knowledge of disease prevention will reduce many of the devastating illnesses we treated this weekend. We inaugurated the “dome,” a prefab building, which doubled our clinical space. Haiti Clinic acquired adjacent land, where we plan to build a new clinic. We are training Haitian nurses, pharmacy techs and physicians. 2012 We have already started a malnutrition correction clinic, which will supply protein supplements to combat kwashiorkor, failure to thrive and starvation. We will begin our women’s center, which will provide birth control, prenatal care and healthcare education to the women in Cite Soleil.  We will also start a birthing unit for expectant mothers.  We are helping to bring fresh, clean water to our neighborhood to prevent water-borne illness such as cholera. We will break ground on our new clinic building. I am very excited and encouraged by our accomplishments and our future plans. Your help made this possible.   All of your contributions prevent devastating illness for children like Baby Boy Laurendy.  I hope that you will increase your support, so that we can help the children of Cite Soleil to grow up healthy and strong. Neil Heskel, MD President Haiti Clinic the power of many Please send your donation check to Haiti Clinic 865 37th place Vero Beach, Fl. or contribute via Network for Good….. Click here to make a donation.  Your dollars are needed to supply necessary medications, medical equipment, clinic staffing and so much more.  Even a little can do so much.  Please consider making your donation recurring.  In fact, if each one of you gave up one thing you do to treat yourself only once a month and sent that money to Haiti Clinic….